Exams, admissions, results and career trends, written by the CareerBox editorial team.
The Education Ministry will publish this year’s National Institutional Ranking Framework results at nirfindia.org across 16 categories. Here is what the rankings actually measure, and how much of it should change your college shortlist.
The AMC and the Association of Designers of India are inviting design, architecture, interior and fine-arts entries on three themes about the city. Students compete in their own category; submissions close 31 October.
The hub bundles three things students can actually use: industry-aligned AI certification and finishing-school courses, an incubator for AI startups, and an AI Living Lab with compute and real-world testbeds.
The Educational Institution Service Tribunal (Amendment) Bill restores jurisdiction that several universities fell out of after the Public Universities Act, 2023. Employees can appear with or without a lawyer; the tribunal has disposed of about 3,650 cases since 2014.
Fresh options can be submitted and locked on the SAMS portal from 4 pm on 12 September to 11:45 pm on 21 September. Allotment follows on 24 September, with reporting and fee payment from 25 to 28 September.
Penalties that had not moved since 1972 have been rewritten. An unregistered school now costs ₹10-15 lakh and a jail term, closing a school without notice costs ₹20 lakh, and for the first time the Act names the special educator as a post schools must fill.
The all-India round 2 result is a public PDF on mcc.nic.in, with no login needed. Reporting runs 12 to 18 September, verification follows on 19 September, and 659 fresh MBBS, BDS and BSc Nursing seats were added across nine states including Gujarat.
A delegation led by minister Vanlalthlana spent 10 September inside the command centre that tracks attendance and learning outcomes across Gujarat’s schools, and left with an invitation for NAMTECH to help design courses for a new engineering college back home.
Told that 40 super-speciality seats in Tamil Nadu alone may lapse unfilled, a bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe asked the government to reconsider the qualifying percentile. The Centre offered a stray round instead.
The UK university has taken its inaugural cohort at Powai, built around data science and finance, with a three-week Global Futures Lab to open the year and a mobility route to the Bristol campus for selected undergraduates.
Stipends in Bihar’s government colleges rise across all three years (₹92,800, ₹1.02 lakh and ₹1.12 lakh), backdated to 1 January 2026, as states compete to keep the specialists they train.
The joint committee examining the Bill that would fold the UGC, AICTE and NCTE into one body flagged the risk of “bureaucratic or ideological overreach”, and asked for vacancies filled within 90 days and penalties tied to proven violations.
Constituent and autonomous colleges of state universities can now apply for deemed-to-be-university status or become off-campus centres of other institutions. First their state has to denotify them, which officials say states have little reason to do.
GSHSEB has redesigned the Class 10 and 12 marksheet: the hologram makes way for a scannable QR code, name and surname get their own fields, and the sheet grows. The changes are aimed squarely at students who go on to study or work outside Gujarat.
Final recovery notices have gone out from the District Education Officer. Fourteen schools owe between ₹5 lakh and ₹62.6 lakh each, and the DEO has warned that continued silence could bring liens on school property.
A total of 1,587 MBBS and 625 BDS seats went unfilled after round 1 of Gujarat’s NEET UG counselling. Choice filling for the second round runs to 4 pm on 11 September, with 16,196 candidates eligible.
Students across roughly 30 departments can log on with their enrolment number, and a new “Earn While You Learn” scheme offers paid administrative, programming and clerical work on campus.
A new KV has opened at Vastral with Balvatika I to III and Classes I to V, one section each. Gujarat now has 49 Kendriya Vidyalayas out of 1,360 nationally.
The Gujarat State School Textbook Board has signed an MoU with Amazon India to sell its books online at the printed price with no delivery charge, aimed at private-school students.
Students in government and grant-in-aid schools in rain-hit areas can get damaged textbooks replaced at no cost by contacting their school or District Education Officer.
St Xavier’s College declined to admit through the state’s GCAS portal and published its own merit list while Gujarat University ran its own, so students could not tell which admission would stand.
Gujarat’s centralised admission portal ran 36 rounds last season and pushed admissions into November, months after Class 12 results. Principals and student bodies want the process simplified.
The 25% Right to Education quota opened with more than 84,000 seats, split across Gujarati, English, Hindi and other mediums. Parents could pick a school shift for the first time.
St Xavier’s Loyola Hall wanted ₹39,359 a year for its primary section. The committee held the approved fee at ₹26,250 and told the school to return about ₹2 crore collected in excess.
